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Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 28 Oct

According to KAKE channel 12 reports, all six of the Kansas Congressional Delegation--senators and representatives--are refusing their pay checks until the Federal government goes back to work. "All six members of the Kansas...

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Barbecue Museum: What!?!

Shavkat @Shavkat (141905) • Philippines 27 Oct 24

It may surprise you to learn that Kansas City, Missouri, will be building a barbecue museum the following spring. The main objective is to present the history and culture of American barbecue cooking style. Writer Jonathan Bender...

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Just about 30 degrees difference

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 22 Sep 24

The temperature today was about thirty degrees cooler than yesterday. We were in Oklahoma. Highs the last few days have been around and above 100 F. Woke up to 72. We came home after church and it is about 58 degrees. F. This...

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Maybe. . .

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 10 May 24

Maybe we will see the northern lights tonight, here in Kansas. At least two sources have said it is possible, due to some blasts from the sun. Around ten p.m. we are to look out to the horizon. We plan to do that. Just shut off...

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Turn it on

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 5 Apr 23

Yesterday some people had turned on their air conditioner. Today or last night those same people turned it off. They had to relight the pilot light on their furnace. We have not completely turned the furnaces off yet, and I hope...

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Oh, come on!!

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 13 Apr 22

Monday was an okay day. Mild weather, no precipitation. Temperatures in the 60's. Tuesday felt like early summer. It got up to 86 F. This morning we had patchy snow. Wind and a thunderstorm last night.By this afternoon it was...

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And there was rain

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 24 Jun 21

It did not cool down very much over night. I got up around 4:30 a.m. In the distance you could see the clouds glow periodically. Lightning was somewhere off and away. I heard just a low rumble, not a loud sound at all, and then...

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Bitterly cold

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 12 Feb 21

As far as I know we are having school. It is bitterly cold here. I want to go back to bed. My lunch is packed, though, and I am dressed in layers and I am getting my gloves and heavy coat. Just do it. I ate sausage and eggs for...

february 2021

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We saw a lot of country side.

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 30 Aug 20

We went on our after church adventure, and we did find Henry's Candy Factory, in Dexter, Kansas. For four generations it has been run by the same family. The store was open, but the woman who usually does the demonstration on...

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{Let Us Step back In the Past} Shall we steal horses?

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 30 Apr 20

The Leader's name is Brooks. His trial comes off to-morrow at Garnett, and as he has pleaded guilty, there is no doubt but that he will serve a few years at least. This comes from a Kansas newspaper in the late 1800's....

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A story that deeply touched my heart.

eileenleyva @eileenleyva (27555) • Philippines 25 Apr 20

I was overwhelmed with the pandemic. Frankly, the Wuhan story was nothing compared with what followed through to the rest of the world. It is almost like I couldn't breathe any longer, the images of the health workers on code blue...

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Ah yes, Friday

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 31 Jan 20

We have been having "spirit week" because the Kansas City Chiefs are going to the Super Bowl. Today we wear red. This is also Birthday Week for Kansas. We were to have had Kansas Day activities on Wednesday but had a snow day...

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State Capitals

Go Crossbones @crossbones27 (52905) • Mojave, California 6 Sep 19

Home to my brothers and the State that cursed you all. Kansas and need to pick up pace because need to get to Missouri because want to hear 88 Fingers Louie. haha, think I will say that until I hit state. Then will...

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Where Next?

Four Walls @FourWalls (86757) • United States 3 Jul 19

I've posted a number of discussions over the past few days about my long weekend jaunt to western Tennessee. I visited four states: Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. So where next? I'm hoping to go west, young...

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Weather

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 9 Jun 19

For a week or so they have been predicting thunderstorms, but we did not get any. I pretty much did not believe them. Well, I guess we had thunder last night, but I did not hear it. I must have been sound asleep. Right now there...

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A Frightening Yesterday

RK Finnell @irishidid (8687) • United States 9 Oct 18

I was at work when someone mentioned there was something going on in my city. I said "I hope it isn't in my neighborhood" and felt my heart sink when they said it was right where I live. My autistic daughter was home by...

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Big No-No

Jim Bauer @porwest (112876) • United States 25 Sep 18

Well, here I am once more at the palatial Super 8 in Wichita off Kellog Avenue, and while I have been here at least four times so far (maybe five) and was never completely dissatisfied with the hotel, it has not been one of my...

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We went for a pointless drive--on purpose

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 4 Sep 18

I was tired of just staying at home. Hubby still is tired, but loves to go for drives. He had seen this courthouse before, but I had not. It is in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. It is made from native limestone and walnut interior...

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Sideways snow

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 14 Apr 18

I am seeing sideways snow out my front window. Not a lot. It probably will not accumulate. It probably will just keep blowing to the eastern side of the state. We had temperatures in the 80's F. or around 27 or 28 Celsius. for...

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Meanwhile in Kansas

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169479) • United States 6 Mar 18

Today we had wind, what else is new? Lights flickered off and on all day. A coworker who was scheduled for surgery was told it had to be rescheduled due to problems all over town with the power. We had snow. We had...

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